Hawes v. Stebbins
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Horace Hawes was a resident of San Francisco, and the owner of a large amount of valuable real estate, lying in San Francisco and in the county of San Mateo. On the 24th of February, 1871, he executed a deed of the real estate to the defendants, in trust, for the establishment and maintenance of. an institution for the diffusion of knowledge, to be called the “Mont Eagle University.”
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Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Horace Hawes was a resident of San Francisco, and the owner of a large amount of valuable real estate, lying in San Francisco and in the county of San Mateo. On the 24th of February, 1871, he executed a deed of the real estate to the defendants, in trust, for the establishment and maintenance of. an institution for the diffusion of knowledge, to be called the “Mont Eagle University.” Hawes died on the 12th day of March, 1871. On the 31st day of December, 1871, the plaintiff, who was the widow of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.:
This is an action brought by the administratrix of the estate of Horace Hawes, deceased, to quiet the title to certain real estate of which it is claimed the said Horace Hawes died seized, and which descended to his widow and' heirs-at-law. The defendants by their answer, claim to be the owners in fee of the said real estate; and they found their claim of title upon a certain instrument, called “ the deed of foundation of Mont Eagle University,” which they allege was executed by Horace Hawes in his lifetime, to-wit: on the 24th day of February, 1871. The plaintiff…
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